Pixel Launcher

As you all may heard, Google is preparing 2 new devices that will be released in October. They are both will be created by HTC. Internally these devices have codenames M1 (Marlin) and S1 (Sailfish) Which will receive Pixel XL and Pixel marketing names accordingly.

For the first time ever, Google will release these devices apart from their main big release which was Android 7.0 that brought tons of the improvements such as:

Over 1500 emoji including 72 new ones

Multi Locale language settings

Multi-window view

Quick switch between apps

Vulkan™ API

Virtual Reality mode

Doze on the Go

Custom Quick Settings

Notification Direct Reply

Bundled Notifications

Data Saver

Notification Controls

Display Size

Seamless Updates

File-based Encryption

Direct Boot

And many more

Moreover it will be less than two months after previous major release when Google release new NMR1 update which will be labelled as Android 7.1. It will bring new Google Assistant as well as new launcher called Pixel Launcher (formerly know as Nexus Launcher) .

It will be completely refined home UI that will be done in a very minimalistic style.

Main screen can contain 5 shortcuts that can be obtained from all home screens.

Swiping up activates main apps window where all apps can be seen and searched

Long press on any area of the home screen activates the setting menu where you can find following options:

Wallpapers

Widgets

Settings

Settings menu doesn’t have much option to adjust, but it has nice feature that allows rotation of the home screen.

This is pretty much it. In general this is very basic and fluid UI that will be improved over the time. Please make a note that this is not final software, it may have many hidden and/or unfinished features that can be seen only on release build. But for now, you have a chance to test it yourself. Click the link down below to get it, just extract these apks on your internal storage and install as usual app: